On 6/19/2010 8:35 AM Adrian Tuddenham spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

Someone else made a comment in another thread here about weird
schematics (like for home appliances).

[...]
... wire-connecting/jumping convention: here I much prefer the
modern approach, which is to use a dot for a connection and no dot for
no connection, rather than the clumsy "loop" to indicate one wire
jumping over another with no connection.

I find the 'gap' convention is easy to draw (with a computer) and
extremely easy to read. It also looks tidy. Four-way junctions which
could be mistaken for crossings should never be used, they should be
staggered instead.

e.g.
http://www.poppyrecords.co.uk/compto...sAmplifier.gif

BZZZZZZT! Fail.

While the gap thing looks OK for non-crossing wires, I have to ding the
drafts-person of that schematic for the following:

o Idiosyncratic symbols for electrolytic cazapitors[1]
o Idiosyncratic ground symbol (one horizontal line????)
o And no, I disagree about those offsets for connecting wires.

That's totally unnecessary he it would be quite obvious that all
those vertical wires connect to what is obviously a bus or rail. A
well-drawn dot is all that's needed there.

(And I don't much like their transistor symbols either)


[1] With apologies to J. Liebermann.


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